A staged reading of the new Sheryl Crow-Barry Levinson musical Diner, which is based on the movie of the same name and had been scheduled to open on Broadway in April, will be held in December, according to an Equity casting notice.

Sheryl Crow

The workshop, which will be held Dec. 2-13 at Pearl Studios, will be helmed by Tony winner Kathleen Marshall with music direction by Lon Hoyt. Scott Landis produces.

In January it was announced that the Broadway opening of the musical would be delayed. Producer Scott Zeiger told the New York Times, "Everyone just feels it needs more work to be better, and we want it to be the best...We wanted to do the creative work without a spring opening being a gun to our heads. And we want to raise all the money, so we can open on Broadway without worrying about making budget and having reserve funds if ticket sales are slow at first."

The musical about pals who gather at a Baltimore diner in 1959 is being directed and choreographed by three-time Tony Award winner Marshall (Wonderful Town, The Pajama Game, Anything Goes).

Diner, based on Levinson's 1982 film, is set in Baltimore, 1959, when six high school friends reunite at the one place they know they'll always belong: the Diner. "Now in their twenties, the friends have stumbled into adulthood and struggle to keep from growing apart," according to production notes. "Life, love, responsibility — it's all on the table."

Crow, who is composing the musical's score, is a nine-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter.